Olestra - The 50 Worst Inventions
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
When it comes to nutrition, what better equation could there be than zero calories, zero grams of cholesterol and zero grams of fat? In January 1996, the FDA approved olestra as a food additive. Cut out the unhealthy cooking oil. Shred the package of shortening. Bury the stick of butter. Frito-Lay was among the first companies to jump on board, introducing its WOW! division of potato chips in 1998 to claim fat-free stomach satisfaction.
[Read More]Porn star pleasures herself with sex toys
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Martina Birk
The producer of the porn movies, Destructive Instinct and Queen of Zamunda who has been concentrating her efforts on running her X-Rated site, afrocanetwork.com, posted these photos of herself using her dildo to pleasure herself and wants anyone who wants to see the real 'show' to take a trip to the site and see her doing her thing. The mother of two teenage daughters posted this on her Facebook page: "
[Read More]Robbery Leads to Active Shooter Reports at Texas Mall
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
An attempted robbery led to reports of an active shooter at La Plaza Mall in McAllen, Texas, on Saturday, officials said.
A statement from McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez confirmed that an attempted robbery took place at a La Plaza Mall jewelry store on Saturday, according to a tweet posted by the City of McAllen. All known suspects are in custody, and no injuries occurred. Initial reports of shots fired were in fact due to breaking glass in the store, according to the tweet.
[Read More]Rough Night and a History of Bachelorette Parties for Brides
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
When movie Rough Night opens in theaters Friday, the comedy about college friends who reunite 10 years later at a bachelorette party that goes wrong will be just one of a recent string of entertainments to celebrate that pre-bridal event. But, while bachelor parties tend to get traced back to the Spartan ritual of toasting to a fellow soldier the night before his wedding day, the female version didn’t take hold until the mid-20th century.
[Read More]Science: The Ox of Cambodia
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
TIME
August 4, 1952 12:00 AM GMT-4
Last year Zoologist Charles Wharton, an adventurous young (28) scientist financed by the Coolidge Foundation, set out for Cambodia to study the kouprey, an elusive and nearly extinct wild ox. Back in the U.S. last week, he had learned a lot about the kouprey, despite the hazards of scientific research in IndoChina’s guerrilla-infested jungles.
With an American photographer, a French guide and an escort of 70 Cambodian soldiers, Wharton established a study camp close to the kouprey country.
[Read More]Shatta Wale's 'Reign' album cover is 100% black excellence
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Nothing tops the 'Abbey Road' album cover by the Beatles. The picture of the boys from Liverpool walking on the zebra crossing on their way to the studio is perhaps the most famous album cover of all time. For 80s kid like myself, Michael Jackson in all of his coco-sheen glory on 'Thriller' is a memorable album cover that reminds us of moonwalks and epic music videos. Rap music came out in the 90s and the album cover of DMX'ssophomore album 'Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood' shot by Hip-Hop photographer Jonathan Mannion would live on forever.
[Read More]Show Business: Killers Done to Death
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner’s Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells—mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue—about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter.
[Read More]Singer pens new songs about failed marriage to Russell Brand
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Martina Birk
The singer revealed to Daily Telegraph that the last time she communicated with Brand was two years ago when he texted her about their divorce. ''He hasn’t spoken to me since he texted me saying he was filing for divorce. I don’t want to talk about him — my songs will say what I need to say.'' The former couple tied the knot in 2010, but the divorce hasn’t turned her off to love.
[Read More]Spotify Has a Much Bigger Problem Than Joe Rogan
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Spotify has a much bigger problem than Joe Rogan.
The streaming service has been in damage control mode, trying to quell the outcry over COVID-19 misinformation spread by Rogan, the wildly popular podcast host. Earlier this week, Spotify released its internal rules prohibiting “dangerous content,” and said it will attach an advisory to any podcast that discusses the pandemic, directing listeners to a new COVID-19 informational hub.
But despite these moves, CEO Daniel Ek also suggested this is a free speech issue.
[Read More]The Difference Between a Spanking and Child Abuse
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
I’m grown, but I’m not grown grown.
Maybe my decent credit score is proof the downy feathers of my childhood have somehow molted to reveal adult plumage patterned with W2s and check stubs and old text messages from men, but relative financial independence doesn’t make me feel like someone who’s planted her foot firmly at the adult’s table of the Thanksgiving dinner of life. As a twenty-one-year-old Southerner, I still teeter on this cusp of age-affirmed identity — full-breasted and home trained and French 75’d down, absolutely, but not yet a veteran of childhood.
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